ACT Aspire Math: How Many Red Chopsticks Should Be Green?

the chopsticks to be read how many of the red

chopsticks should she exchange for green ones Red and green

sounding a lot like christmas here Well it appears that

leslie does not quite know how chopsticks work since an

even number of chopsticks will leave one unfortunate gas just

jabbing randomly into his or her food But leslie thinks

she will be more prepared for her party if she

can arrange the color of some of her chopsticks So

that's what we have to solve for and poke her

party manners What Leslie has fifteen chopsticks and ten out

of fifteen or red She wants to fifth to be

red So do the current chopsticks do the Job Well

the fine 2 fifths of fifteen convert to fifth ce

into a fraction there with a denominator of fifteen Well

since five times three is fifteen in california and in

beijing well we can multiply both the numerator and the

denominator by three to arrive at an equivalent fractions We

got to fifth times three thirds and that gets us

six fifteen Translate that fraction teo mean that leslie wants

six red chopsticks out of fifteen total chopsticks right Since

she currently has ten red chopsticks well she needs to

exchange four of them So the answer is c there

for green ones to achieve her lofty chopstick goals and

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